Side Dish: Dita Von Teese hates sun

Apr 17, 2008 | 10:05 PM

Dita Von Teese dressed more modestly than her watercolor likeness (sorry - we covered up the naughty parts!) at the New York Academy of Art's "Take Home a Nude" auction. The face of MAC Viva Glam told us her secret to looking picture-perfect: "I never go suntanning. My worst fear is looking down and seeing brown, wrinkly cleavage. It'll get white and wrinkly, but no need to rush it."

Ivana Trump and now-hubby Rossano Rubicondi almost weren't legally wed. "The day before the wedding they still hadn't filed for their marriage license, so they raced down to city hall," a snitch told us. "But when they got to the front of the line, they couldn't come up with the cash for the license. They had to get out of line and borrow the money from someone else!"

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"Real Housewives of New York City" star Alex McCord said she was proud of those nude modeling shots that popped up recently. But the saucy mom turned prudish during an interview with Judith Regan on Sirius. McCord and "housewife" Bethenny Frankel took offense when their fellow guests - randy security adviser Bill Stanton and Bunny Ranch bossman Dennis Hof - asked if they'd be up for group sex. Sirius has agreed not to run the interview. Really? A Sirius source assures us Regan will air the naughty chat next Wednesday on Sirius Ch. 102.

Matt Lauer clearly cherishes his family after his near-divorce from wife Annette last year. The "Today" anchor is due to spend three weeks in China covering the Olympics. "I don't want to be separated from them for that long," he recently told photographer Jesse Nash. Lauer, who plans to bring Annette and the little ones, sought advice on surviving Beijing from Nash, whose exhibition of exquisite Chinese images opens at the Grant Gallery on Thursday.

Don't mess with Crystal Liu. The "Forbidden Kingdom" star tells us she did "80% to 90% of my own stunts" in the Jet Li and Jackie Chan flick, which opens today. But the true knockout may come from Liu's beautiful voice - she's also a singer, and the first to have an album top the Chinese and Japanese charts.